Science Under Siege: Interest Groups and the Science Wars

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The combative metaphor of science wars has taken on a predominant position within the collective conscious, from being featured on the programs of scientific meetings to being splashed across the pages of leading national magazines and newspapers. Some in the scientific community perceive their profession to be under siege by members of the academic left, radical environmentalists, religious fundamentalists, eco-feminists, and others. This book, based on in-depth interviews with sixty members of groups with alleged anti-science attitudes, examines how pervasive and uniform these critiques are.

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The book provides a stimulating glimpse of how committed members of different interest groups perceive the place of science in contemporary life. * Contemporary Sociology *

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Robert Perrucci, at Purdue University, is President-elect of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Leon E. Trachtman is presently Professor Emeritus of Communication at Purdue.